Coin-handling apparatus.



G. F. E. HBNNING. com HANDLING APPARATUS.

'APPLIOATION FILED AUGA, 1910.

Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

7z (/6 7a LL02" GEORG FRANZ EDUABD HENNING, OF BERGEDORF, NEAR HAMBURG, GERMANY.

COIN-HANDLING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

Application filed August 4, 1910. Serial No. 575,403.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEonG FRANZ EDUARD HENNING, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Bergedorf, near Hamburg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Handling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin handling apparatus such as cash-registering apparatus, coin counting machines, coin delivering machines, money changing machines or change makers, or the like.

The main object of the invention is to provide means for controlling the working of the apparatus by the amount of money passing the same, so as to insure reliability. The controlling device moreover may be adapted to be combined with an indicator to enable the amount paid out by, or passing the apparatus, to be read Off. The said controlling device consists of locking means adapted to project into-chutes, channels, pipes or other conduits for-coin, here inafter termed fication, and of controllers proper,vwhich are locked in position by said locking means,

when moved to an extent corresponding to the amount of coins passing the chutes. The controllers consist preferably of disks provided with perforations at the outer rim, adapted to be engaged by studs at the end of levers, which constitute the locking means spoken of above. The levers are carried by an arm, which is preferably acted upon by a spring and by a cam, to positively oscillate the arm and to reciprocate the levers, either project into the chute, or when loaded by coins to enter perforations or slots on the disks to lock them in position.

Means are provided to rotate the cam and the controller-disks, which at every operation moves from the same starting point and, when turned to an angle corresponding with'an amount of money determined by the stroke of keys, present perforations to the levers loaded. by coins. The rotation of the cam, allows the loaded levers to enter the perforation and thus to lock the disks in position. The indicator 0 rated b the disk indicates the amount 0 money al owed I to pass.

In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1 to 3 show in elevation, partly in section, one way of constructing the controller forming perfect chutes throughout the speci-.

my invention. Fi 4 is a similar view of a modified construction of the same. Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view of the construction shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 shows diagrammatically, the controller disks of the modification and illustrating the relative position of the disks.

In said drawings, a designates a chute" at-.

tached to any kind of coin-handling apparatus, for instance of a money deliverlng machine fed with money from any coin reservoir by an ejector not shown, in the drawing. A lever 12 adaptedto project into the chute a through an opening 0 in the wall 0 is pivotally attached to an oscillating arm or frame 1 and when loaded with money fed into the chute at one end is brought into an approximately horizontal position and rests against the lower edge (Z of the opening 0 or with the other end against an abutment d as shown in Fig, 2. The last named end is providedwith a stud p adaptedtoenter a perforation 0 in the rim of a disk 6, forming the aforementioned disk and attached to a suitably journaled shaft e. Parallel to this shaft 6 and also journaled in the framing of the a paratus is a second shaft carrying ly attached thereto, a cam engaging the lever carrier or arm Z, which is pressed against this cam by aspring n.

The operation of the device, so far described is as follows :-By allowing money to drop into the chute a, by any known means for instance by striking a key in a coin-delivering machine, to which the device may be attached,

the lever 12. willbe rocked from the position shown in Fig.1 to the position shown in Fig. 2. Hereupon, the shaft f is rotated by a handle g at its-end, to change the position of the cam is, which is so shaped as to allow the arm or frame 1 to give we to the pressure of the spring n, thus ten ing towithdrawthe lever away from the chute a. This tendency is opposed by the stud or, in p resting against theouter rim of the disii. e. By means hereinafter more fully described with reference to Fig. 5, the

rotatlon of the shaft 7 is transmitted to the shaft e. to give the disk e art of a, turn in the direction indicated by t e arrow A, (Fig. 1) until the perforation or slot 0 is presented to the pin p, which immediately enters the same, by the action of the spring a, which withdraws the lever 12 from the chute a allowing the money B to pass. At the same time, the disk 6 is stopped and locked in po-.

' sition by the pin or stud p, the lever I) bearbeing intended, piece, one for a V0 in a certain short distance levers b, I) and b carrier or frame I mg against 03 or d. It may be remarked here that the disk e always commences to move on every operation, from the same starting point and that the indicator, operatively connected'with it, starts from zero position. Thus, when the disk e is locked by the lever 12, it has turned to a certain angle and the indicator must have moved to a corresponding degree, thus indicating the exact amount, which has passed the chute, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

For a better illustration and an understanding of the invention, 3, the disk e is providedwith only one perforation, and therefore the disk 6 can merely be turned to'one position to allow the indicator, to indicate a single amount. This however, will very rarely happen, as may be gathered from the following. Generally, a

greater number of amounts are to be controlled by asingle controlling device.

In the example shown in Figs. 4 to. 6, seven-different amounts of money 'can be controlled by three controlling disks I, II and III, all rigidly fastened on the shaft 6', each disk belon ing to one coin-chute, one or instance for a half-dollar one dollar v two one dollar pieces. For enabling the controller to operate when paid out, the disk I, is provided with a slot position. For paying out one dollar the disk II is provided with a slot 0 a short distance beyond the'place opposite the slots 0 of the disk I; for one dollar and a half, both the disks'I and II are provided with a slot 0. a short distance beyond the slot 0 the slot 0 however standing accurately opposite one another; for two dollars the disk III is provided with a slot 0 a beyond the place opposite the slots 0 of the disks I and II; for two dollars and one-half, the disk I and the disk III are both provided with a slot 0 the slot 0 being placed a short distance beyond the slot 0' onthe diskIII and the slot 0 onthe disk I being laced accurately opposite that on disk II for three dollars the disks II and III are provided with a slot 0 still a short distance further and finally for three dollars and one-half,allthree disks I, II and III are provided with a slot 0', 55

all three slots 0 being situated accurately opposite one another as before. For each dlsk I, II and III there is of course a locking lever b, b and b respectively provided at one end with" a pin and adapted to project with the other end into the corresponding chute a, a and a respectively. The are pivoted to a common acted upon by a cam is as described with reference to and spring-n,

The cam is is rigidly fastened Figs. 1' to a in the Figs. 1 toare also turned,

piece, and one for one half-do'llaris to the shaft f, which loosely carries a pinion or toothed segment h meshing with a gearing 2' keyed to the shaft 6. A coiled spring 9, fastened .with one end to the shaft 7, presses with its other end against the segment h, to hold it in position against an abutment/i.

-When a certain amount, say two dollars and a half, are delivered by the apparatus, two one-dollar pieces are dropped into the chute a and. at the same'time one-half dollar piece into the chute a by the usual ejector froma reservoir, both not shown in the drawing. The coins drop on the levers b and b respectively and thus turn them into an approximately horizontal position, while the lever 12 not loaded by any coin, remains in the position shown in Fig. 4. Now the handle 9 is operated to turn the cam k in the position shown in Fig. 4. Though immediately the shaft f starts to rotate by the aid of the spring 9, the segment h and gearing 2', the disks I, II, III however, as long as the slots in the disks are not in a proper position, one or the other of the studsp rests against a rim of the disks, thus holding all three levers in a position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.. When now the disks I, II and III have turned to such an angle as to present the slots 0 to the studs pot the levers b and b, the frame Z is turned into the position shown in Fig. 4 by the tension of the spring n, the studs 2 finding their way into the slots 0 of the disks III and I and thus lock the controller.

Any kindof indicator may be combined with the controller, to indicate the amount paid out by the apparatus. By way of example as shown in Fig. 5, one of the'disks e, for'instance I may carry numbers on its rim in consecutive order of the slots 0 0 0 etc., and the same distance apart, the

numbers corresponding with the amounts determined by the slots, and in the cover of the apparatus opposite the disk I an opening is arranged in suchposition, that the number corresponding-with the slot or slots, which are at the time of operation standing opposite the studs of the levers b, when in horizontal position will be visible through such opening. Thus in the position shown in Fig. 4:, the number 2%- will appear in the opening indicating that two and one-half dollars are paid in or out. The spring 9 allows the handle 9 to be turned even after the locking has been carried out, thus preventing the teeth of the gearing or other parts from being broken. When, for instance, three dollars and onehalf are paid out, the difference is that the proper coin is. dropped into the chute a to bring the lever into horizontal position. Now on turning the handle 9 no stud p can enter any slot 0 until all three meet in position a slot, that is when the disks are turned to the greatest extent and the slots 0 are presented to the studs.

Evidently instead of three, more or less disks can be combined to form one group in which case all corresponding locking levers are carried by a common frame Z operated by a cam in. If the number of disks is in .creased, each corresponding coin chutebemg arranged for dlfferent amounts, also" the number of different amounts that can be delivered and controlled, increases to an extent that is far greater than the increase of the number of disks. For instance, it four disks are combined, fifteen'diflerent amounts can be paid out and controlled. The number of amounts can be calculated by the formula 2'-1, if n is the number of disks inthe controller or in one group of the controller. Of course any number of controllers or groups of disks may be employed of coin chutes in combination with levers adapted to progect into the chutes, and rotatable disks a a tion by said levers, each disk being provided with pted to be locked in posi-.

a number of perforations into which the levers are adapted to engage when the disks are rotated to an angle corresponding to the amount of coins passing the chutes.

3. In a coin-handlin apparatus, a series of coin chutes in com ination with levers adapted. to project into the chutes, a movable carrier for the levers, rotatable controllers adaptedto be locked in position by said levers when the carrier is moved toward the controllers and when the latter are ro-' tated to an i angle corresponding to the amountof coins passing the chutes.

4. In a coin-handling apparatus, a series of coin chutes in combination with levers adapted to project into the chutes with one end and provided with a stud at the other end, a movable'carrier for the levers, rotatable disks corresponding in number with the chutes and levers and adapted to be locked in position by the disks, each disk provided with perforations into which the studs of the levers are adapted toflengage when the carrier is moved toward the disks and when the latter are rotated to an angle corresponding to the amount of coins passing -the chutes.

5. In a coin-handling apparatus, a series of coin chutes in combination with levers adapted to project into the chutes, a mov able carrier for the levers, a cam engaging the carrier, a. spring pressing the carrier a ainst the cam, and rotatable disks provlded with perforations near the rim adapted to be engaged bythe levers to lock the disks in posit1on.

GEORG .rmuz 111mm) Immune.

- Witnesses:

CHARLES HARRY RoEoKNER, ERNEST H. L. MUM nNHoFrxf 

